I think I am probably a lot like my father.
I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.
I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.
Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
I find with records, they become what they're going to become. They take on a power and a direction of their own. Part of making records is to honor that and not try to force it.
If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.
Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.
I listened to Pablo Casals, which was a big change for me. Without hearing Casals, I would never have advanced as I did.
I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe.
I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.
I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.
